Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 2 | It announced this week that it was adding a top rate of 12.5 p.c. to its new Premier Fix account . |
| 3 | ( In fact , Mr Duroselle seems almost to believe that the worst aspect of colonialism was the way it divided European nations that might otherwise have come together . ) |
| 4 | It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 . |
| 5 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 6 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |
| 7 | It sold spare parts that were never stocked in larger shops . |
| 8 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 9 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 10 | An obvious trophy , it afforded irrefutable proof that the victim was male , and obtaining it gave the additional satisfaction of dishonouring the corpse . |
| 11 | It rejected any idea that an organisation should ever be created to suit the individual characteristics of people . |
| 12 | It happened one day that the master went away upon his business . ) |
| 13 | The Ramblers ' Association said it welcomed any measures that allowed more people to walk in the countryside , and assistant director David Baskine said : ‘ It is important that the proposals will not offer payment to farmers who own land where public access is already allowed . ’ |
| 14 | It developed three algorithms that automatically analyse the program 's machine code , create an intermediate architecture neutral representation of the program and shift executable code to the new environment . |
| 15 | Every time any rumour sprang up concerning some kind of resettlement at any refugee camp , it reawakened old suspicions that UNRWA was an accomplice in the liquidation of the problem . |
| 16 | Temporary upsurges in militancy during the year , in particular around the question of British intervention in Russia and Ireland , provoked principled stands at national and local levels , not least because it deflected anti-Bolshevik propaganda that had been used consistently against Labour . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , Benelux did advance further than other proposals for economic union , such as that toyed at in 1945 and again in 1948 by France and Italy , and perhaps it offered valuable lessons that could be learnt by future attempts in the same direction . |
| 18 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 19 | At a national level the Triple Alliance collapsed in April ; with it went socialist hope that a united union movement could challenge the government . |
| 20 | Before the 1790s higher spending on poor relief , although it convinced many contemporaries that the incidence of poverty was increasing , probably did not , except in particularly bad years , reflect much other than the increase in population and in food prices . |
| 21 | However , it emerged last night that a reporter from London Weekend Television unwittingly tipped off residents about the raid when he phoned contacts on the estate to ask if there had been a raid — before it had actually happened . |
| 22 | It emerged last night that Tony Hendley saved the life of two dying youngsters by donating his kidneys . |
| 23 | It emerged last night that Ynys Mon 's MP Ieuan Wyn Jones has met new Welsh Secretary John Redwood to discuss the future of the hall . |
| 24 | It appeared last night that some of the staff entitled to 10 to 15 per cent of the shares might not take them up , but all the key board members will , thus ensuring the success of the scheme . |
| 25 | Although he added that no formal response had been received to the offer , it appeared last night that The Face was hoping to negotiate a further reduction . |
| 26 | It said last night that details were disclosed in leaked drafts of six forthcoming reports on specialist health services in the capital . |
| 27 | It had many features that are associated with Barry 's Italianate club-house style and , according to Dorothy Stroud , Soane was indebted to the Villa Farnese at Caprarola for many elements that he used . |
| 28 | A local authority would be expected to offer these services before seeking an order unless it had clear evidence that the parents would be unwilling or incapable of making use of them . |
| 29 | Like Unix , it started life as a development environment , and like Unix , it had intrinsic features that made it unsuitable as a production operating system . |
| 30 | It had ivy-clad buildings that looked old even if they were not , rolling lawns , elm trees , a small lake and a chapel with a portico . |